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Ah, so I wasn't imagining things, cool. Na, connection to a person, a thing, an action, tends to bring about some kind of emotional response. It just depends on what type of connection it is, how much of a connection it is and how much you allow yourself to react to a situation involving the object of that connection.

As for being able to function socially, I commented to an INTJ once that he seemed quite friendly; his response was that it was a "recent developent" - he was 31 at the time.

Dreams are best served manifest and tangible.

INFP, 6w7, IEI

I accept no responsibility, what so ever, for the fact that I exist; I do, however, accept full responsibility for what I do while I exist.

When I was little, I had a favourite story about a bird (I remember the colours and the way it was drawn...the birds were round-ish, colours, purple-pine greens and yellow-orange-browns)...something happened to the little bird in the story (maybe his mother died, I don't remember) and then it probably had a fairly happy end. My mother keeps telling me about how I would ask her to read it to me over and over again even though I would feel extremely sad and started crying because the little bird was sad every time at the same moment in the story. I would literally have her read it to me three times in a row and I'd cry heartwrenched tears three times. And then more the next day.

A little Fi bird. I guess I enjoyed feeling and empathising with the little bird and seeing how he was sad and then got happy again. I'm good at this personal, slightly ethereal, abstractish Fi-stuff, but not with interpersonal applications of it.

To function, we don't require doubt. To feel, we don't require other people, just good action of our own. We aren't awesome. Awesome is us.

If you really want to see an INTJ cry an honest tear, represent to her an example of someone who chooses a conviction and acts upon it, and gains the strength to act by knowing that he intends to change everything that stands before him, and not because he seeks chaos, but because what is true is true.

If you really want to see an INTJ cry an honest tear, represent to her an example of someone who chooses a conviction and acts upon it, and gains the strength to act by knowing that he intends to change everything that stands before him, and not because he seeks chaos, but because what is true is true.

Sounds like the storyline in your typical RPG or anime series.

It sounds too idealistic, passionate, and positive for an NT at first glance, but I suppose I can buy it with the whole tertiary Fi thing.

That sort of thing would probably inspire me to cheering them on rather than crying, though. Probably an Fe vs. Fi thing...

It sounds too idealistic, passionate, and positive for an NT at first glance[...]

Yep. Thus the tear.

I will, therefore I am.

Grand battles of right and wrong are good. Struggles with doubt are tiresome. Action with a purpose is... mundane. But becoming one's conviction... now that's fun!

I suppose the one hiccup is that one could be wrong. But that's the beauty part of the T. Not being wrong. The ideal holds that when the conviction is chosen, it's not because of choice, but because of clarity, honesty and truth. The conviction is what must be.

The fact that it doesn't seem to make any sense... makes it more moving?

I will, therefore I am.

Don't you mean, "I think, therefore I am"? What you just said seems a little... well, impossible. Will is just another force that can contribute to an outcome, it doesn't make sense to attribute more power or meaning to it than to the other forces at work in a given situation. Does it?

Grand battles of right and wrong are good. Struggles with doubt are tiresome. Action with a purpose is... mundane. But becoming one's conviction... now that's fun!

Yeah, I'd pretty much agree... there's something powerful and inspiring in the idea of someone becoming their own conviction.

Originally Posted by Kalach

I suppose the one hiccup is that one could be wrong. But that's the beauty part of the T. Not being wrong. The ideal holds that when the conviction is chosen, it's not because of choice, but because of clarity, honesty and truth. The conviction is what must be.

That's the virtue I suppose of the relatively unsophisticated Fi.

It definitely seems like they're certain that this must be true because of their convictions, anyway.